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Stéphane De Groodt has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s.
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Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.
Dir. Lola Doillon · With Léonie Souchaud, Fantine Harduin, Juliane Lepoureau

To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Dir. Fred Cavayé · With Bérénice Bejo, Stéphane De Groodt, Suzanne Clément

Mathias Gold is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he's shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge. His apartment is a viager—an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale—and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard, who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé for many years, can by contract collect monthly payments from Mathias until her death.
Dir. Israel Horovitz · With Maggie Smith, Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas

Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Resources, working for a huge French agro-food company. But, one day, one of the employees commits suicide at the company in front of her. While an investigation is underway, stuck between her traumatized colleagues and under pressure of a powerful hierarchy, she will have to get by on her own.
Dir. Nicolas Silhol · With Céline Sallette, Lambert Wilson, Stéphane De Groodt

On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
Dir. Eric Lavaine · With Lambert Wilson, Franck Dubosc, Florence Foresti
Catherine and Yann, happily married for many years, should have spent the year travelling abroad. But since he sold his business, Yann has been too busy with his bonsai trees and keeps postponing the big trip. Things go from bad to worse when their 27-year-old broke daughter and her boyfriend lose their apartment and come knocking on the door to stay. With Yann’s mid-life crisis spinning out of control, their couch surfing daughter and partner getting increasingly invasive and their stay becoming indefinite, Catherine will try everything to kick them out of the parental home and get her life back on track!
Dir. Michèle Laroque · With Michèle Laroque, Stéphane De Groodt, Alice de Lencquesaing
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
Dir. Nicolas Vanier · With Elsa Zylberstein, François-Xavier Demaison, Stéphane De Groodt
Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate love, fate plays a trick on them: Peter and Penelope each wake up in the body of the other! To protect their secrecy, they each find themselves having to live the life of the other. This is the beginning of the complications ...
Dir. Bruno Chiche · With Stéphane De Groodt, Louise Bourgoin, Aure Atika
Set in the world of 2045, where communities have robotic helpers, a group of suburbanites are locked in for their protection by their household robots, while a rogue, self-aware AI android revolt uprising takes place outside.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet · With Isabelle Nanty, Elsa Zylberstein, Claude Perron
Michel, who's crazy about jazz, has just found a rare album that he dreams of quietly listening to in his living room. But the world seems to have conspired against him: his wife chooses this moment to divulge an ill-timed revelation, his adult son makes a surprise visit, one of his friends knocks on the door, while his mother keeps calling him on his smartphone. Not to mention that today the residents in his apartment building are holding their annual House Party. Manipulative and a liar, Michel is ready to do anything to have a moment of peace and quiet. Is it still possible, in this day and age, to just have one hour of peace?
Dir. Patrice Leconte · With Christian Clavier, Carole Bouquet, Valérie Bonneton
On a Saturday night during lock down, a group of very good friends go online to share a virtual aperitif. Suddenly, one of them is attacked and kidnapped live by an unknown man in front of his friends who watch helplessly from behind their screens. They soon discover that this mysterious stranger knows all their worst secrets, which he intends to bring to light one after the other.
Dir. Romuald Boulanger · With Stéphane De Groodt, Nadia Farès, François-Xavier Demaison